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  2. Benign fasciculation syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS) is characterized by fasciculation (twitching) of voluntary muscles in the body. [1] The twitching can occur in any voluntary muscle group but is most common in the eyelids, arms, hands, fingers, legs, and feet.

  3. Tetany - Wikipedia

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    Position of Hands in the Spasm of Tetany (1905) Tetany is characterized by contraction of distal muscles of the hands (carpal spasm with extension of interphalangeal joints and adduction and flexion of the metacarpophalangeal joints) and feet (pedal spasm) and is associated with tingling around the mouth and distally in the limbs. [citation needed]

  4. Trousseau sign of latent tetany - Wikipedia

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    In the absence of blood flow, the patient's hypocalcemia and subsequent neuromuscular irritability will induce spasm of the muscles of the hand and forearm. The wrist and metacarpophalangeal joints flex, the DIP and PIP joints extend, and the fingers adduct.

  5. Tingling in your fingers isn't uncommon – but here's when you ...

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    To treat tingling in the fingers, “first and foremost, you have to come up with the correct diagnosis,” says Dr. Hisham Awan, an orthopedic surgeon and director of the Hand and Upper Extremity ...

  6. Raynaud syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Raynaud syndrome, also known as Raynaud's phenomenon, is a medical condition in which the spasm of small arteries causes episodes of reduced blood flow to end arterioles. [1] Typically the fingers, and, less commonly, the toes, are involved. [1] Rarely, the nose, ears, nipples, or lips are affected. [1]

  7. Cadaveric spasm - Wikipedia

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    Cadaveric spasm may affect all muscles in the body, but typically only groups, such as the forearms, or hands. Cadaveric spasm is seen in cases of drowning victims when grass, weeds, roots or other materials are clutched, and provides evidence of life at the time of entry into the water.

  8. Myoclonus - Wikipedia

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    Myoclonus is a brief, involuntary, irregular (lacking rhythm) twitching of a muscle, a joint, or a group of muscles, different from clonus, which is rhythmic or regular.. Myoclonus (myo-"muscle", clonus "spasm") describes a medical sign and, generally, is not a diagnosis of a dis

  9. Writer's cramp - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Overcontraction of affected muscles, cocontraction of agonist and antagonist pairs, and activation of muscles inappropriate to a task all impair use of the affected hand. [3] Writer's cramp is a task-specific focal dystonia of the hand. [4] 'Focal' refers to the symptoms being limited to one location (the hand in this case), and 'task ...

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